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...hours, and running to and from recitations during this time, with nothing but bread and butter and a cup of tea at noon, but it will be necessary to place before them a large quantity of meat not required now at tea, because the interval between meals is so short. This will considerably increase the expenses, and for this increase there is no margin left in the price of board, which already exceeds four dollars. Retrenchment must be made somewhere, and it will inevitably be made in the fare...
Resolved, That in the death of our classmate we mourn the loss of a faithful friend and a true Christian, who, by a life short but faithful in good works, has made his memory dear to the many, in administering to whose needs that life was spent...
...reflector placed outside the south door of Memorial Hall. Now, on stormy evenings, every one of five hundred men must shuffle doubtfully down the steps in the darkness, or leap boldly into the night with little idea where he will land. Ice and snow would render the descent, short as it is, uncomfortably precarious. The use of merely proposing such an improvement is, we know, questioned, but few men are generous enough to take the matter into their own hands, and it can only be hoped that in the present instance, at least, the suggestion may reach those who alone...
...subjects one would be informed about within the number of electives. The primers of science which pretend to impart general information on their respective subjects are seldom reliable, and usually written for youthful minds. Since able instructors in the different sciences are not wanting, a series of short courses of evening lectures on the natural sciences might profitably supplement our regular instruction. The lecture-rooms of Boylston Hall are well suited for the purpose; one of them offering means for extensive illustration of subjects by calcium light...
...success of a series of short lecture-courses on anatomy, physiology, geology, astronomy, etc. by our own professors would not be at all doubtful. This plan of instruction would supply a real want. All that is necessary for its introduction is the expression of the desire for such instruction from a number of students sufficient to make the plan seem feasible to instructors...